A dud of a day

You know it’s a slow news day when reporters flock to cover the discovery of a replica World War II-era bomb at a local storage unit.

But, to be fair, no one knew the bomb would be a dud until after we arrived.

Initial reports were that a woman was cleaning out a unit at Public Storage in the 1300 block of Austin Highway at about 1 p.m. Wednesday when she saw the hunk of metal shaped like a missile and got worried.

She called police, and an officer quickly determined the “bomb” was a dud, but per protocol, San Antonio Police Department’s bomb squad was called to the scene. Well, kind of.

The “squad” was really just one officer in a truck with a dog. He walked over to the object inside of a unit in the rear, picked it up and flung it into his truck. By that time, several TV photographers had joined me on the scene. It was the only “breaking news” I went out to cover Wednesday.